Boston firsts
Subtitle: 40 feats of innovation and invention that happened first in Boston and helped make America great
By: Lynda Morgenroth.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Inventions -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- Miscellanea.; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Miscellanea.; United States -- Civilization -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Miscellanea.
Table of contents: title: Baker's Chocolate, 1765; title: Ready made suit, 1826; title: Banana shipment, 1871; title: Gillette Safety Razor, 1903; title: Filene's Automatic Bargain Basement, 1909; title: Molasses flood, 1919; title: Newspaper, 1690; title: Novel, 1789; title: Thomas Alva Edison and the legislative voting machine, 1868; title: Telephone, 1876; title: TV for the deaf, 1972, and the blind, 1990; title: Science and engineering; title: Smallpox inoculation, 1712; title: Ether, 1846; title: Subway, 1897; title: Kidney transplant, 1954; title: Lighthouse, 1716; title: Tontine Crescent, 1794; title: USS Constitution, 1797; title: Boston Public Library, 1854, 1858, 1895; title: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, 1903; title: Madam Alice, 1672; title: Hotel, 1829; title: YMCA, 1851; title: World Series, 1903; title: First night, 1976; title: Ice, 1806; title: Boston cream pie, 1856; title: Boston terrier, 1860s1870s; title: Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School cookbook, 1896; title: Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 1988; title: Christmas ban, 1659; title: Massachusetts State Constitution, 1780; title: Gerrymander, 1812; title: School integration : Roberts v. the City of Boston, 1849; title: Massachusetts 54th Regiment, 1863; title: Same-sex marriage, 2003; title: Boston Common, 1634; title: The Public Garden, 1856; title: Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn redwood, 1948; title: Boston harbor cleanup : the longest, largest effluent outfall tunnel in the world, 1990-2000.